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Re:Lavabit needs your help to fight for the right to keep em... by bdg on Monday September 30, 2013 @03:46PM (#6471851)
People have been detained for pissing and moaning on twitter about the president.

But thanks for being so pleasant about sharing your assumptions.

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Re:Lavabit needs your help to fight for the right to keep em... by ics on Monday September 30, 2013 @04:19PM (#6472101)
You mean this? http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/09/12/3521473/man-who-...

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Re:Lavabit needs your help to fight for the right to keep em... by bdg on Monday September 30, 2013 @05:55PM (#6472655)
That's one of many. The first one that comes to my mind is http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2093796/Emily-Buntin...
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Re:Lavabit needs your help to fight for the right to keep em... by cbr on Monday September 30, 2013 @03:53PM (#6471904)
link?
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Re:Lavabit needs your help to fight for the right to keep em... by mjolk on Monday September 30, 2013 @03:57PM (#6471937)
Can you provide a link to prove this?

And come on, there's no need to be pleasant the umpteenth-thousand time that someone mades a snide, ultra-paranoid remark about America that scrapes the bottom of Godwin's law.

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Re:Lavabit needs your help to fight for the right to keep em... by bdg on Monday September 30, 2013 @05:57PM (#6472669)
Your manner degenerates any productive conversation. Thank you for reaching Goodwin's law first.
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Re:Lavabit needs your help to fight for the right to keep em... by mjolk on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @07:37AM (#6475447)
It really doesn't though. The ease of consumption of the political topics is killing the depth of discussion on hackernews and forcing people elsewhere, especially when comments like "wow don't gitmo me bro" are now considered acceptable.
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